Sunday, May 27, 2007

Red shash

On Friday and Saturday we celebrated the end of the tantric workshop and on Saturday we had the final ceremony. On the final cermony I got my Red Shas degree for 250 hours of Yoga yeahhhhhh.  Www.agamayoga.com has different exams after a number of lessons, it is like Kung fu with different belts.
 
The month May was full of workshops and yoga. I only did the 7 days retreat "Revelation of Self" with teachings of Ramana Maharashi and poems from Rumi. The teacher was Claudiu from Romania, he is a tantric yoga master and has experience with big meditation retreats and with the organization of a big Yang spiral (5000 people). The reteart was amazing and I got much deeper into the teachings of Ramana. I can read all the books but doing a retreat and listen to the teachings and meditate on that is much more profound.
 
We all are happy that those busy days are over, it was good but now we have more time to concentrate on the yoga. Last Saturday I went to a pot luck party everybody brings food and we eat the rest of the afternoon. It a nice change from the daily food intake and everybody bring very healthy food, like fruits, coconut cream and many other herbs, for amazing smoothies.
I decided to do one more month of Yoga with agama and then ...? Who knows.


Ohm shanti, shanti, shanti
Meinoud
http://www.rijnentravel.blogspot.com
From Amsterdam to India by bus and train

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Yoga at Ko Phagan

Hi Guys,
 
I'm still doing Yoga at Ko Phagan. I'm doing yoga now for more then 3 months. I lost a lot of kilo's (I'm now 66 kg) with this yoga and I got a lot more flexible I can do now Halsasana for about 10 minutes and I'm working on my headstand ...it is now only 5 minutes in the next 2 months I hope to build this up to 10 minutes. I still practise between 3 and 4 hours a day. Anyway I like the yoga with Agama. The place is now very busy with a lot of workshops going on right now Swami is giving a workshop on the Art of Dying. I could not go to this workshop because I need a new visa update in Ko Samui. Next week there will be a workshop on the spiritual heart I hope to do this silent retreat..They use the the same kind of meditation as Ramana Maharasi and after this retreat there will be a Tantra 2 workshop.
 
Ways can be strange, when I came to Ko Phagan,  I thought I would say hi to Sander and do a bit of Yoga maybe only the first month and the off to Burma and China. Then suddenly I was doing the second month of the program. Sander and Walter another friend from Holland decided to go to China to do Tai Chi. They invited me to come but I really wanted to finish the second month, and now I'm in the 4 month of the program and I will do next month as well and then...who knows? 
 
Link to yoga: www.agamayoga.com
 

Ohm shanti, shanti, shanti
Meinoud
http://www.rijnentravel.blogspot.com
From Amsterdam to India by bus and train